ENCINITAS  An accounting firm that has accepted thousands of dollars in contributions from various Encinitas political players for slate mailers has been fined more than $110,000 by the Fair Political Practices Commission for various financial reporting violations in the past year and listed questionable donors on recent campaign forms.

A slate mailer is a mass mailing that supports or opposes at least four candidates or ballot measures.

In 2008 the group received $750 contributions from the campaigns of Councilmen Jerome Stocks and James Bond and candidate Doug Long; $6,000 from DCM Properties in Encinitas; and $3,000 from Encinitas-based development firm ACP Olivenhain LLC. Poway-based Associated Builders and Contractors PAC contributed at least $2,500 to mailers for Long’s and Stocks’ campaigns in 2009.

Voter Education Group reported receiving a $5,000 contribution last month from an Encinitas woman named Jane Blair for mailers endorsing Gaspar. Its original Oct. 5 campaign finance statement erroneously identified Jane Blair as a candidate for Encinitas City Council.

Gaspar, CFO of a physical therapy group called Gaspar Doctors of Physical Therapy, said Blair is her former client. Blair also was seen campaigning for Gaspar at an event last month. Blair’s listed numbers were all disconnected and she did not respond to e-mails.

Voter Education Group’s treasurer, Kinde Durkee, has been penalized for campaign reporting violations at least three times by the FPPC. Durkee was treasurer for Steven Westly’s gubernatorial 2006 campaign, which the FPPC fined more than $104,500 last year for failing to disclose various expenditures. Two other campaigns for which Durkee was treasurer were also each penalized earlier this year for roughly $5,000. The FPPC imposed the penalty for late contribution reporting for the campaign of Sen. Curren Price, D-Los Angeles, and for a Los Angeles Democratic Party committee. Last year, Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego, fired Durkee, then her treasurer, for allegedly failing to report 29 check forgeries by one of the company’s employees. Durkee did not return a call seeking comment.

Voter Education Group’s Oct. 5 financial disclosure form contained several inconsistencies and questionable reports, including one of a $100 contribution from a Coronado woman to what was listed as Jane Blair’s Encinitas council campaign. The group made changes to the form Wednesday after the U-T inquired about various discrepancies.

The group’s form, filed with the Secretary of State, listed a $5,000 contribution to the group from “Jane Blair for Encinitas City Council,” made Sept. 17. Encinitas City Clerk Deborah Cervone, who processes campaign candidate paperwork, said she had never heard the name Jane Blair before. There was also no record of a required Statement of Organization for a “Jane Blair for City Council” campaign filed with the Secretary of State. The Voter Education Group form was since amended to show Jane Blair making an individual $5,000 contribution toward Kristin Gaspar.

The organization reported a $100 contribution made toward Blair’s “candidacy” from Beverly Birdsell, 74, of Coronado. Birdsell was listed on the group’s forms as also giving $100 to four other candidates or measures around San Diego County in July. These were: Santee Council Candidate Rob McNelis, the City of San Diego, Brian Jones for State Assembly, and City of Oceanside Proposition K, which was voted on in June. Reached by phone, Birdsell said she had no knowledge of those races. Voter Education Group amended its 401 form to show Birdsell contributed $500 in July toward Yes on Proposition G in Chula Vista, a measure voters passed in June to prohibit labor agreements on city public works and construction projects.

Campaign financial statements are filed under penalty of perjury, said Bob Stern, president of the nonpartisan Center for Governmental Studies and co-author of the 1974 Political Reform Act. Stern said, however, that charges are rarely filed. He said political organizations use the information a contributor gives for its financial forms, and unless there is an attempt to mislead, will usually file an amendment to rectify a discrepancy.

The slate mailer that caused a political stir in Encinitas rips incumbent and council candidate Teresa Barth, who has been publicly at odds with Dalager. It depicts Dalager and Gaspar aligning on several issues, such as the development of Hall Community Park and the Scripps hospital expansion in Encinitas, and Barth against them on each. The mailer also asks voters to support county Proposition A, which, like Chula Vista’s Proposition G, aims to eliminate labor agreements on county construction projects. It says Barth also spent more than $9,000 on a city credit card, whereas Dalager in his term spent $81. Barth’s supporters roundly criticized the mailer as highly misleading. Barth said the $9,000 was spent on council-authorized trips to meetings where she represented Encinitas. She also said she does not request city reimbursement for out-of-pocket expenses or per diem.

Dalager and Gaspar have distanced themselves from that Voter Education Group’s mailer, even though both paid to be on it. Gaspar’s latest campaign statement shows a $500 expenditure to the group. She said she confirmed her positions with the group but left the design to the organization. She said that is a common third-party slate-mailer process.

Dalager said his campaign consultant authorized it for him, and he has still not seen the mailer. When originally asked why Jane Blair’s name appeared as a candidate on the form, Gaspar said, “I’m not going to be the best source for you on that publication since it was done by a third party.” Dalager said he does not know a Jane Blair.